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2008 APRIL
LISA St MARTIN CLASS |
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This was an amazing class because Lisa St Martin who has had experience
in almost every area of art glass was able to provide the attendees with a
wealth of tips and techniques that drew upon her understanding of glass and
glass chemistry. So in addition to learning to make beads using silver,
gold, all types of copper, dichroic glass and powders we also learned why glass
and metals behave and interact the way they do and how to control those
interactions. She advised us about purchasing metals at budget prices and what
tools should be used when working with these metals. Plus we learned to make
dichro stringer and a great new casing technique - even the Web Mama made cased
beads!
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If you were not
fortunate enough to attend the class, Lisa told us that her video covers
most of the topics she taught. If you would like to purchase a copy
email Lisa@Glassbeads.com
The cost is $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping.
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Because we were working with metals and powders, Southern Flames
provided each class member with a respirator. It is especially
important to wear a respirator when you are fuming with gold or silver. The
respirators were purchased for under $10 from EnviroSafety
Products. Go to their
Website
and type in the SKU# 3MM8233
to locate it. Thank you Margo Knight for researching and
purchasing these for our classes.
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Lisa worked in
class with a many forms of copper. The bead on the left is
made with copper mesh. The one in the middle uses copper leaf.
Note that copper sheet or foil will turn deep burgandy while the lighter
leaf produces a green/blue effect.
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Copper foil,
copper mesh and copper wire are some of the materials we used in class.
Lisa advised that we use pure copper sheet that is as thin as possible;
that we work with a large holed copper mesh and that our copper wire be
28 guage.
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Copper sheet and copper mesh can be
purchased at Michaels or other hobby stores.
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One of the fun supplies we worked
with were the Glow in the Dark powders which was used to make the bead
on the right.
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The bead shown below was made from
clear glass fumed with gold which gives it the pink color. We did
both gold and silver fuming in class using the tools and techniques Lisa
taught us.
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Shown below some of the students in
the Sat / Sun class as well as our wonderful TA Renee Taylor.
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